<p>does anyone have any views on this? what are your chances if you go early action? are they better than regular decision? </p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>what are your chances if you go early action? are they better than regular decision?
Only if you are considered to be a very strong applicant. Otherwise you are likely to be deferred/ rejected.</p>
<p>thanks menloparkmom. I appreciate it, but why do you think that the chances are better only if you are a strong candidate? are all early appl really better candidates?</p>
<p>For all purposes, by applying early you are essentially excluding your senior year grades, achievements, and many awards. Thus, you would have to believe all of your accomplishments up to this point are impressive enough to the adcoms to get you in</p>
<p>Normally SCEA gives applicants a tremendous advantage. Universities claim this is because these applicants are better prepared, but this is not the whole story- several universities (including Ivies) admit to giving early applicants an advantage, and a Harvard</a> study concluded that applying early gives applicants the equivalent of a 100 point boost on the old SAT. </p>
<p>Byerly posted revealing</a> statistics about top colleges filling half of their entering class with early admits.</p>
<p>If you want the exact numbers for SCEA and RD, I previously posted the 2011 results for [url=<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=3854558%5DHarvard%5B/url">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=3854558]Harvard[/url</a>] and [url=<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=3854164%5DYale%5B/url">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showpost.php?p=3854164]Yale[/url</a>].</p>
<p>Unfortunately, the decision of Harvard and Princeton to drop their early admissions will result in a huge influx of SCEA applicants at Stanford and Yale, so the benefit will definitely not be as great as in past years. Even so, I suspect that the SCEA admit rate will be higher than the RD rate.</p>